WD Red ok in desktop for storage?

CF93

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My old HDD in my desktop is dying so I need a replacement.

Since I use an SSD as my boot and program files drive and only use my HDD for storage of "my docs" and photos, videos and such, is a WD Red ok to use?

I thought I read somewhere they don't do as much error checking as the Blue cause they leave that to the NAS box settings? If that's true I would go for a Blue except they only appear to be 1Tb max (I need 2Tb ideally.)

Is the 2Tb Red ok to use, or should I get a couple of 1Tb Blue instead?
 
CF93 said:
My old HDD in my desktop is dying so I need a replacement.

Since I use an SSD as my boot and program files drive and only use my HDD for storage of "my docs" and photos, videos and such, is a WD Red ok to use?

I thought I read somewhere they don't do as much error checking as the Blue cause they leave that to the NAS box settings? If that's true I would go for a Blue except they only appear to be 1Tb max (I need 2Tb ideally.)

Is the 2Tb Red ok to use, or should I get a couple of 1Tb Blue instead?
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The WD site tells you what each model is primary aimed/tuned for.

On main page with all drives and in greater detail somewhere and in forum from the Staffer called Bill.

I would say Blue/Green for you but I would use Blacks as the rest are slower and sleep a lot but the Blacks cost more.
 
My current drive is a Seagate and it's a 7200.7 so really old now (and end of life by the noises its making)
So no objections to Seagate, yet I hear lots of bad reviews around these days (that's why I was looking at the WD.)

I've got real-time backup running to an external USB drive (WD MyBook as it happens)
 
I believe the last generation of Seagates had some issues, but the most recent ones (ST...DM001/000 models) have had decent feedback.

Personally wouldn't touch a WD Green (had nothing but issues with the ones I have had). Never had any issue with their Black and RE drives. I have friends using the Red drives in NAS's and they haven't had any issues with those either.
 
Thanks, might just get the Seagate then. Never had issues with them before so hoping that trend continues!
 
If it's data you care about, buy 2x 2tb drives. One for the data, the second for the backup
 
Thanks bledd, I have a 2Tb external USB connected with real time backup (WDs "Smartware") so just need an internal drive just now.
 
I have two 3TB Red drives in mirrored mode in my PC and they are perfect.

I wouldn't use anything else for storage, they come with a 3 year warranty too which is better than the Green drives.
 
Fibre does not mean anything and if he is on Cable (which is not Fibre to the home) the upload is a poor Ratio.

12Mb/s (my upload) may seen fast but not to back up a lot of data and he may be slower than that.

I have a Cloud service but TBH ext HDD's are better.
 
I have Virgin Media's 30Mb package, drops to about 20 down during peak time. Up is consistently 2Mb. (hoping I'll get upgraded sometime!)

I've considered a NAS but don't have the funds for a NAS box plus drives just now, though that would make accessing stuff from my tablet and phones so much easier....
 
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